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Travelocity.com Opens Call Center in Southwest Virginia
Fort Worth, Texas-based Travelocity.com is opening a $2.27-million call center in Clinton, Va. Vacated by Nexus Communications, the facility will host employee training for the 500 available positions in June and open in July as Travelocity's third call center.
Community Education Partners Develops Philadelphia Facility
Community Education Partners Inc. has purchased a 167,000-sf structure in Philadelphia to convert into a modern educational facility housing approximately 1500 students. Purchased for $3.5 million from yarn maker and spinner Coren-Indik Inc., the former manufacturing facility and adjacent land is slated for an $18-million to $20-million renovation.
University of Pennsylvania Riverview Plans Completed
The University of Pennsylvania Riverview Campus master plan has been completed by Cambridge, Mass.-based Tsoi/Kobus & Associates. The 20-acre Philadelphia Civic Center site will be transformed into a mixed-use healthcare and research center serving the needs of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania.
TestChip Expands Austin Operations
TestChip Technologies is expanding from 4,000 sf to 30,000 sf in Austin as part of the company's drive to increase its R&D work. A developer of chips that test the semiconductor manufacturing process, the Plano-based firm will be adding 100 employees to its Texas operations. TestChip primarily supplies wafer foundries.
Turner Develops Techwood Campus
Turner Broadcasting System Inc. broke ground on its Techwood campus in Atlanta in March 2000. Development of the campus network operations facility and office building is slated to move forward ahead of schedule, with the next phase of construction to begin in 2002. Despite design completion, however, development of TBS' new office tower has been pushed back from 2002 to 2004 in order to focus on the Techwood facilities.